- France
The company’s calling card is its ability to create powerful, poetic visual universes, all in the service of singular writing exploring powerful societal themes (Marius von Mayenburg, Copi).
Munstrum is a company driven by an ambitious aesthetic philosophy, in which lighting designers, composers, stage designers and visual artists all play crucial roles in the collaborative process of creation.
This is theatre as skewed prophecy or nocturnal visitation, finding comedy and unexpected levity in darkness and chaos.
The actors’ faces are obscured by a second skin, transforming them into strange creatures with some primal connection to our underlying humanity. Fragile apparitions capable of troubling cruelty as well as startling naïveté. Here on the threshold of their fantasy world, reality is distorted into an intriguing chiaroscuro puzzle.
Reflecting back our hidden selves, the masks bring us face to face with our own monsters. Like some carnival hall of mirrors, the monsters on stage come to represent the monster in all of us.
